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Nana Boateng

Nana Boateng is a Data Scientist with professional experience in machine learning, Deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, optimization techniques, predictive analytics, statistical analysis and spatial data visualization.

Education

M.A., Economics

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

2017 - 2014

PhD., Applied Statistics

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

2016 - 2012

M.S., Applied Statistics

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

2014 - 2012

M.S., Mathematics

Middle Tennesse State University

Murfreesboro, TN

2012 - 2010

B.S., Mathematics

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Kumasi, Ghana

2007 - 2003

Professional Experience

Data Scientist

NICE Systems Inc.

Alpharetta, GA

present - 2019

  • Build machine learning models for financial fraud detection.
  • Perform analysis to support the deployment of fraud prevention analytical models.
  • Analyze fraud cases obtained from clients.

Research Technician

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

2017 - 2016

  • Studied zebrafish development to investigate the homology between fish fins and tetrapod digits in the Shubin lab.
  • Performed summer and weekend (part-time) zebrafish husbandry and genotyping of CRISPR-generated Hoxa13a/Hoxa13b double mutant fish.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

2014 - 2011

  • Investigated the role of Blimp1 (PRDM1) in radiogenic stress response to analyze its role in protection from radiogenic breast cancer in the Onel/Cunningham lab.
  • Demonstrated that Blimp1 primary transcript, mRNA and protein expression increase after IR exposure; designed Blimp1 shRNAs and inducible overexpression vectors and transduced cell lines.
  • Performed proteomic analysis of cytarabine chemotherapy response in lymphoblastoid cells using microwestern arrays (MWAs) in the Jones lab.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

2011 - 2007

  • Studied the cellular uptake of VO(acac)2 to analyze its application as a contrast agent in PET scans in the Makinen lab. Demonstrated that VO(acac)2 enters the cell via the reduced folate carrier (RFC) protein using Western blots and RFC inhibitors.
  • Analyzed epigenetic differences in high-risk versus low-risk neuroblastoma cell lines and tumors with bisulfite sequencing in the Cohn lab.

Teaching Experience

Lead Content Developer, Data Science Professional Program

HarvardX

Cambridge, MA

2020 - 2019

  • Maintain, revise and expand online content for the Data Science Professional Certificate1 and Genomics Data Analysis2 MOOC series from HarvardX on edX, including dozens of new coding exercises based on case studies.
  • Added a variety of new data sets3 to the dslabs package4 for teaching data science in R, comprehensively edited the Introduction to Data Science textbook5, and am co-authoring the textbook solution guide.

Science Lab Coordinator

Adlai E. Stevenson High School

Lincolnshire, IL

2017 - 2016

  • Prepared laboratory chemicals and materials, tested and improved protocols, and maintained laboratory equipment for 49 high school science teachers with 4000+ students.
  • Updated labs to incorporate modern scientific techniques, probeware, and inquiry-based principles into the high school curriculum.
  • Tutored homebound students for biology, chemistry, and anatomy/physiology and offered private science tutoring.

Teaching Assistant

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

2014 - 2009

  • Assisted with numerous undergraduate and 1st year PhD graduate courses.
  • Prepared and taught weekly review sessions and exam preparation sessions, helped write exams, graded assignments and exams, fielded student questions, held office hours, and tutored students 1:1.
  • Courses: Endocrinology/Cell Signaling (4x), Biological Systems, Protein Fundamentals, and Cancer Biology Grant Writing

Peer-reviewed Publications

Identification of Novel Protein Expression Changes Following Cisplatin Treatment and Application to Combination Therapy6

Stark AL et al. Journal of Proteome Research, 16(11): 4227-4236. PMID 28902521.

N/A

2018

Splicing modulation sensitizes chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells to venetoclax by remodeling mitochondrial apoptotic dependencies7

Ten Hacken E et al., JCI Insight 3(19). PMID 30282833.

N/A

2017

Truncated DNMT3B isoform DNMT3B7 suppresses growth, induces differentiation, and alters DNA methylation in human neuroblastoma.8

Ostler KR et al. Cancer Research 72(18): 4714-23.

N/A

2017